Is redistribution of wealth the “change we need”? Is this the “change you can believe in?” Obama sure thinks so. What matters on November 4th is, what do you think?

Senator Obama, during a interview in 2001 (quote from U.S. News):

“If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples so that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at a lunch counter and order, and as long as I could pay for it, I’d be OK. But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and the more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society, and to that extent, as radical as, I think, people try to characterize the Warren court, it wasn’t that radical; it didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers and the Constitution…. One of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think, there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change, and in some ways, we still suffer from that. You can craft theoretical justification for it legally, and any three of us sitting here could come up with a rationale for bringing about economic change through the courts.”

However, by moving to block discovery vs. answering specific claims in Attorney Philip J. Berg’s Federal lawsuit within the prescribed 30-day window, Senator Barack Obama and the Democratic National Convention legally admit to the claims presented in the suit. Among them? Senator Obama was born in Kenya, and is not eligible to run for the office of President of the United States.

The news release is here, and Berg’s suit can be found at his website.

Now it remains to see how Obama and the DNC will spin this. I would have serious trouble believing that a Harvard Law Grad didn’t know about the 30 day rule for responding to claims in a federal lawsuit. He was ACORN’s attorney, for pete’s sake. Is he going to tell us that he wasn’t aware of the law? Or that his ailing Grandma (please pray for her) had him distracted to the point of not responding to the lawsuit? What the DNC’s excuse? As a side note: look for the “official” document from the State of Hawaii to be released on or after Obama’s return from visiting his Grandmother in…Hawaii.

My heart is heavy today; this is not a good day for Democracy. I’d much rather have an honest debate of the issues–not have to wade through the scandal of such a foundational deception of the good people of our nation.

1) Have you heard of something called the “clone and kill” bill? Yeah, me neither. Robert George’s article at the Witherspoon Institute boldly details that legislation, as well Obama’s voting record and his promised policies should he be elected.

2) Mary Ellen, a dear friend and Catholic home educating mom of many, hits the nail on the head.